Baseball is better than politics. Whereas baseball has been a cultural icon for over a century (think “we love baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet”), politics stokes culture wars. ...
This post uses recent climate news from our large but little-known North American neighbor to focus on the excruciatingly difficult dilemma of fighting climate change while allowing continued economic growth. ...
A brilliant idea by Abraham Lincoln could work again now. For a look at how Lincoln’s wisdom just might play out eight score and three years later, please read on....
The words unclear and nuclear are identical except for reversal of the first two letters. This is fitting, given the lack of clarity surrounding the threat of a war fought with atomic weapons. We attempt to clear up this tough topic a bit and even...
Along came a trend known as “woke” It was stretched so far that it broke Progressive folk spoke it Conservative blokes poked it And now the broke woke trend’s a joke. ...
Not totally unlike the heart-rending dilemma and moral morass America confronted in deciding whether to invade Japan or drop atomic bombs in 1945, the United States today faces a tough quandary in Ukraine. ...
Immigration and border control is the second particularly tough political dilemma we are tackling anew over the next months. This issue has been a problem under Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden, and it is not going away....
For some reason, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress pay great heed to any cry of “there ought to be an investigation!” See what we think both parties in Congress should be doing instead....
Unfortunately for voters, one thing the political parties have in common these days is that their leaders tend to employ the same game plan for winning. The play they both call most often seems designed to make all of us angry. ...
During 30 days on the continent of his ancestors, a political blogger naturally thinks about how living in our current nation is better or worse than living “over there.” Here is a returned traveler’s brief assessment of European life, politics, and more....
